Anella Fernández presents her paper “Do Ho Suh: Infinite Movability as a Nostalgic Repercussion” at the 5th annual Undergraduate Art History Symposium on April 17, 2021. The annual Symposium event is hosted by the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art in collaboration with Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph, Missouri. Fernández is a senior at the Kansas City Art Institute.
Abstract: Throughout his career, South Korean artist Do Ho Suh has uniquely harnessed the crippling feelings associated with nostalgia and redirected it into productivity to become his life’s work. Nostalgia is seductive because it offers the comfort and hope of things past which is quite different from the uncertainty of the future. Do Ho Suh’s work embodies the refusal of longing by redirecting these nostalgic impulses into work that embodies the feeling, or essence, of yearning.
About AKMA: A work of art itself, the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art houses one of the finest collections of American Art from the Colonial period to the present. The former William Albrecht home provides the perfect backdrop for works by artist including Mary Cassatt, Thomas Hart Benton, Gilbert Stuart and Jaune Quick-To-See Smith. A wide variety of special programs complement the museum’s collection, including temporary exhibitions, art classes, gallery talks, and special events. More information can be found at Albrecht-Kemper.org
18 апр 2021
